By the way, I liked this for a couple of reasons: The site itself (the link at the bottom) is both arty and reminiscent of a virtual world. The fashion show (which is behind the door at the top of the stairs) is oddly intriguing. Although Alicia refers to "awful outfits", high fashion has never been about stuff that real people would wear around town. But some of it is quite cool and definitely something my avatar would wear, even though I wouldn't. (I bet Hypatia would wear it, too. Or invent even more intriguing stuff of her own!) And Alicia's statements of the soullessness of the model struck me as very real.
I only had a minute to give the Times article a quick glance, but am looking forward to it. Looks like there is some cool stuff there. Thanks for the links, Alicia! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alicia Henn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:18 AM Subject: fashion sans real models In a NYT rundown of best new ideas of the year, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/magazine/2008_IDEAS.html#c-ideas-4 . I found this interesting. A virtual fashion show with one model, enpixelated and reiterated 12 times, passing herself on the runway in awful outfits. It's not necessarily a new idea, but it is real now and I was struck by the soullessness of the very realistic image. That same robotic lack of expression that you see in real models on the runway is reproduced exactly in the digital version, a strange artificial person image-imitating life-imitating personlessness. It's a pretty intense flash movie, download-wise, but it is interesting. Good music. http://www.viktor-rolf.com/_en/_ww/index.htm Alicia --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
